CSOTD Bonus Edition: Otis Redding - White Christmas

The second post at the beginning of CSOTD was a live version of I Can't Turn You Loose by Otis Redding.

I said on that blog that someone wanted me to define cool, I would first point them to Miles Davis. But, the close second would be that Otis Redding performance.

Otis remains, for me, one of the Titans Of Cool. And that performance set the standard of this blog. I confess, I've been struggling to live up to that level of cool ever since that post.

So, therefore, it's fitting that we end the year as we started this blog, with the epic soul of Otis Redding.

I mean, who else could turn this stale, staid Irving Berlin tune into over flowing river of cool?

Only Otis, baby, only Otis.